The high cost of construction combined with complex and changeable regulations make high demands on designers, owners, builders, and developers.
Shape Energy Inc. provides trustworthy, cost-effective analysis, advice, support, and assurance for energy code compliance, cost reduction (value engineering), and energy performance optimization.
Shape Energy acts on your behalf to assure code-compliant efficient buildings at feasible cost.
Our Process:
- Design Integration: assure technical components and systems are copordinated with cost, performance, resilience goals
- Energy Modelling: assess design development plans against climate, occupancy, schedules, building code
- Design Iteration: support for code compliance, coordinate plan updates for submission and construction
- Project Support: accessible from engagement through occupancy.
- Resolve emergent issues and questions
- Advise on technical product and material selection
- Optimize building process and constructibility
- Update energy model and business case as necessary
- However else we can support your project and team
- As-built code compliance: Support and coordinate plans updates, official reporting and submissions
Energy Modelling and Advisory Services
- BC Energy Step Code Compliance for homes and low-rise residential and commercial buildings
- CSA F280-12 Zoned Heat Gain /Heat Loss Analysis, Residential Ventilation Checklist Compliance
- Registered Professional for Part 9 buildings, NECB modelling under your seal for Part 3 buildings
- Design integration (Integrated Design Process facilitation), stakeholder management
- Value-engineering plans to code-minimum configuration including CAPEX / OPEX optimization
- HVAC specification, commissioning verification, heat pump performance profiling
- Window and door assessment for performance, code compliance
- Detailing advice and team coaching for construction, airtightness, leak repair
- Technical and financial risk analysis, advice on siting, orientation, resilience, environmental
- Solar PV and energy storage business case anlaysis
Code compliance pathways supported
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Residential and Commercial Energy modelling to ASHRAE 140 (Hot2000 or EnergyPlus/OpenStudio)
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Airtightness testing to CGSB149 and ASTM E0779/E3158, leak detection
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BCBC 9.36.6/EnerGuide (for Part 9 houses and multi-unit buildings including light commercial)
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BCBC 9.36.6/NECB Part 8 (Part 9 light commercial buildings)
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BCBC 9.36.5 (for Part 9 log buildings)
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EnerGuide Rating / Renovation Upgrade Service (Real Estate evaluations, grants/rebates/loans)
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Vancouver Building Bylaw/EnerGuide (Part 9 residential and light commercial buildings in Vancouver)
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NBC 9.36 (Part 9 residential and light commercial buildings on Federal lands)
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NECB Part 8, Part 10 (under your seal for Part 3 commercial buildings)
Shape Energy’s 3D Exergy energy modelling procedure provides essential technical insights into the operation of buildings as environmentally-dominated multivariate systems.
We consider the static and dynamic properties of foundations, assemblies, glazing, HVAC, equipment and appliances, water’s heating and use, lighting, operating schedules, energy inputs and losses, and the metabolism and number of people occupying.
Shape Energy’s mission is to decode, understand, compare, and present the energy cost of this complicated interplay in a concise manner to satisfy regulatory requirements and to provide useful information and advice to owners, designers, and builders.
We do this while maintaining the aesthetic and functional intent of the building’s design, and respectfully of the land, ecosystems, culture, and society we act upon.
*exergy: relative efficiency of different energy systems to do equivalent useful work
Contact Us
Phone
(604) – 774 – 4451
info@shape.energy
Nigel Protter MBA EA RASDT
Lead Energy, Finance, and Construction
- Energy, Finance, and Project Consultant
- NRCan Registered Energy Advisor
- Design Integration Facilitator
- Energy Modeller
- Part 9/NECB Hot2000
- Part 3/NECB EnergyPlus
- CSA F280-12
Nathaniel Protter EA CACEA
Vancouver and Sunshine Coast
- NRCan Registered Energy Advisor
- TECA F280-12